After 2020, covid or long covid or something else, vaccine or not, a lot of people have been experiencing several prolonged health abnormalities, and health system are refusing or failing to recognise it. So a lot of people are trying to make sense of it and taking measures

Vitamins, exercise and reducing alcohol are some obvious ones

Besides there are studies about post covid and damage to the liver, pancreas, gut... A lot of these will have similar symptoms with alcohol excess or maybe compound with alcohol consumption

You just need to scroll a bit, without logging in, to get inappropriate content like the Ads of Spiderman beating Elsa with a pan

And the YT app comes pre installed in most androids

You can give a phone with very restricted social media

My child under 10 has a tablet. She can message the family, draw, make videos, take pictures, has a album, some musics. Some, limited time, video cartoons and mostly educational games

Companies should provide better tolling to help parents follow their children online. Especially now with AI would be quite easy to make smart policies

Books are still super relevant

If you read something written by a field specialist you don't just learn something, you get the core of the issue. All the mechanics that lead to it, tradeoffs, and the possible paths for the future. That makes the book relevant for many years

Though it is hard to make ourselves read long form content nowadays where short content is pushed to us every day

Also seeing so much short content make us think the books are outdated. When in reality it keeps churning the same implementation details and getting us burned out for not progressing. And bleeding keeps being reinvented on set concepts

And might be a good hiring tip, read a book a year, put it on your CV

You get new career prespectives/vision, opportunities, libraries ideas, companies ideas, research ideas

Remember 10 years ago at big company, the external audit company required picture evidence that the electronic equipment was being destroyed. We requested it to the disposal company, and they sent us pictures of a guy with a hammer smashing a motherboard

The whole situation so ridiculous and bureaucratic

I also don't care to try Wayland. Xorg has already won

A lot of people would argue avoiding systemd bloat as a plus

The end user interface for shepherd and systemd are very similar. And probably the least of your worries migrating to a declarative distro

Xorg won? I mean, it has a larger install base probably, but it's also been around significantly longer.

In the long run MIT code developer becomes irrelevant

After the million dollar company forks it and includes it in their product without even saying hello. And the developer is left with a depression

I think each project, and its conditions, can take advantage of diferent licences, there are very successful projects in all of them

I like them both, both interesting, quite similar, both with corner cases

Annoyingly both fail at basic stuff like falling back the graphics card, something Debian had solved 10 years ago, no configs needed, no matter Intel/NVIDIA/AMD. Even without the correct driver or firmware falling back to VESA or fbdev should be a given. Never had so many black screens as now. Even Windows has done better job at giving you a basic resolution while you install the drivers

Or maybe it's just the state of the Linux ecosystem, with the introduction of Wayland and NVIDIA open drivers, causing regressions

Also the unintuitive inverse of traditional package management, where if you want to update one package, all the system updates by default

Which increases the amount of bugs, having frequent updates to a stable system

To make it better you can add 2 channels, and call them nixos-stable v24 nixos-latest v25, keeping most of the system one version down increases stability a lot

Of course the incorporated Grub boot build choices is great to revert back to a working system

I really like the the separation Guix makes on having close source being a concern of a separate project

But both of them are equally easy to install open source only or include proprietary

> But both of them are equally easy to install open source only or include proprietary

Unless it really dramatically changed recently, I don't think that's true. Look, here's the official manual page that describes exactly how to enable use of the non-free packages that are right there in the main nixpkgs repo:

https://nixos.org/manual/nixpkgs/stable/#sec-allow-unfree

And here's the guix equivalent, maintained in a completely separate repo that you're not allowed to talk about, document, or refer to in any official channels: https://gitlab.com/nonguix/nonguix

These are not equal.

> These are not equal.

Of course they are. Copy and paste a text snippet to your configuration, and run the cli to refresh

Being a separate repo is absolutely OK. Just like installing Nixos's own Home-Manager

Or add other people channels, like adding PPA on Ubuntu/debian. Or run flakes...

Nixos is possibly makes it more confusing by having the documentation recommend `nix-channel --add` instead of the declarative approach. Having the standard declarative, and having flakes on top

And you should probably want to create your own channel. On the week I installed Guix immediately created my channel and packaged ZimWiki

> Of course they are. Copy and paste a text snippet to your configuration, and run the cli to refresh

Even in the best case, that requires you to know about it. When you're not allowed to document the option or even mention it in official support channels, that's harder.

> Being a separate repo is absolutely OK. Just like installing Nixos's own Home-Manager

> Or add other people channels, like adding PPA on Ubuntu/debian. Or run flakes...

> And you should probably want to create your own channel. On the week I installed Guix immediately created my channel and packaged ZimWiki

All of these things make it harder to use and less likely to stay supported.

> Nixos is possibly makes it more confusing by having the documentation recommend `nix-channel --add` instead of the declarative approach. Having the standard declarative, and having flakes on top

So... I agree that that's annoying, and I personally would prefer that everyone agree to use flakes, but AFAIK you don't need to do that to enable unfree in nix? Or is this an unrelated argument against nix that's separate from the point about unfree software?

> Also the unintuitive inverse of traditional package management, where if you want to update one package, all the system updates by default

What do you mean? ins't that exactly the arch way ? (no partial update supported)

In Arch if I needed something updated today you would have done

> pacman -Sy

> pacman -S package_name

Leavig the rest system unchanged

In Nixos

> nix-channel --update

> Add package to /etc/nixos/configuration.nix

> nixos-rebuild switch

Which would update everything

Maybe we could do

> nix-channel --update

> nix-env -iA packagename

But I am not sure which version would be installed. And it would definitely go against the purpose of using nixos

> nix-shell -p package_name

It is also quite cool for trying packages without installing permanently

Iran probably has had the capability to build one for some time, the reason they haven't done it is because is not their policy. And they adhere to international regulation and audits to make sure everything is compliant

But if their sovereignty keeps being threatened who knows

April 16, 2021 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/iran-nuclear-unanium-enrichment... "Iran said on Friday that it had begun enriching uranium to the higher level. The country has said it intends to use the 60% enriched product for radio-pharmaceuticals, which can be used to treat diseases including cancer."

> And they adhere to international regulation and audits to make sure everything is compliant.

Sounds like you do not actually know what you are talking about. Here you go:

https://www.reuters.com/world/china/iaea-board-declares-iran...

https://bipartisanpolicy.org/blog/delayed-inspections-jcpoa-...

I wouldn't trust anything from western media. It is just manufactured consent to bomb a country on the other side of the world.

I see you don't want to let pesky facts get in the way of what you want to think.

> I don't trust western media.

Then call the IAEA and ask them yourself.